In an early session we heard McKinsey outline their view of long-term mega-trends.  These ranged from the impact of differing world demographics and economies that point towards eventual convergence between the GDPs of Asia and Europe in some 15 years time; the concomitant pressure on commodities and natural resources especially water as consumption rapidly grows; to trends that have a more direct impact on business.  Steria is already seeing and shaping some of these latter business changes, working with clients to redefine corporate boundaries and embrace extended supply chains – both organisationally and geographically. more

(Source: CXOtoday.com) On the final day of the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2010, a separate track was conducted as part of the NASSCOM Foundation – the social development arm of of NASSCOM. more

India might soon become the first country in the world to deliver e-governance services to citizens using cloud-based IT services. The
government is having a dialogue with the apex software industry body, Nasscom, on how to roll out e-governance services using this emerging technology, which fast gaining acceptance among enterprises for its affordability and ability to address large numbers of transactions. “A collaboration on e-governance via cloud technologies may include 90% of the citizen services, which have not yet been rolled out. It will also make project execution faster,” R Chandrashekhar, secretary for IT, ministry of it and communications, told ET in an exclusive interview. more

The session with Professor David Garwin at NILF last evening was testimony to the fact that, you can be extremely funny while being extremely clever. The professor’s stories had the audience cracking up frequently – if he is such an accomplished performer in the classroom too, then his students are very lucky.   more

IT is playing a pivotal role today in development of our country,  in both an economic and social sphere. There are societal challenges that we believe only the Indian IT-BPO Industry can really make work. more

Azim Premji, in an interesting session along with Jerry Rao today at the NILF,  shared some very simple messages and yet were able to create a spark in the minds of, probably, most of the many leaders present in the room. Following is a bit from what indeed was ‘more than a mere PR exercise’ and something we believe can be executed by all. We have shared some opinions below and hope to further the thought at the CSR track tomorrow. more

Live Blogging the Track on Day two of the NILF 2010…Get Set Go…Building Organizations With a Vision with Lynda Gratton from the London Business School. more

Next Generation Partnership – taking Partnership to the Next Level, Session One of the Day Two at the NILF 2010. We have Mr. Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman CA Inc, with a strong panel consisting, Dana Deasy, Group Information Officcer, BP, PLC and Filippo Passerini, Global Business Services and CIO, P&G. more

LIVE Blogging the Change Makers at the NILF 2010, We have Mr. Christopher Rice, Sr. VP Shared services, AT&T, Paul Adams, SVP Engineering Pratt & Whitney and Stephen Tame, CIO, GM IT Jetstar Airways with the Chairperson for the session BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman and MD, Infotech Enterprise Ltd.Stephen tame, more

The Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri Ashok Chavan handed over NASSCOM Social Innovation Honours 2010 (NSIH 2010) for innovations in making a social change using technology.These awards are given by the NASSCOM Foundation(http://www.nasscomfoundation.org/) the social arm of NASSCOM . more